“Dorlaz, come on, just give it up. The fight between Asgard and Niflheim is now over. We are now completely cut off from Earth. The Blue File predicted that our isolation was happening sooner or later, the End Times, just not when exactly.”
Dorlaz tilted his head. “Huh? The ‘End Times’?”
“It was foretold over 2000 years ago. Things are happening right now down on Earth that are amazing.. you won’t believe it.”
“Try me.”
“Well, we don’t know the timing exactly, just that it is happening: The implosion of the world financial system due to unsustainable debt. Then the wars, refugees, hunger, and famine that inevitably follows. A charismatic world leader takes over and blames and Jews and Christians as scapegoats. There is terrible persecution of Christians as ‘hate mongers’, Jews are called neo-cons, or worse. Everyone must publicly support the precepts of the new secular system, the new secular religion, indicated by a RFID chip embedded in your smartphone or your wrist - without which you can’t buy anything - and maybe a tattoo on your forehead, kind of similar to ours. The new secular system will demand rigid political orthodoxy, with any dissent shouted down in public. The resisters, the faithful remnant, will be mercilessly persecuted by government bureaucrats using new regulations and laws, then attacked by street thugs, then simply shot or bombed and their churches and synagogues burned.”
And it was already starting to happen in several countries. Some perhaps more, some less. It had begun even before the gates were removed.
Dorlaz shrugged, “Frankly, that sounds like something Hild would like to see. Evil winning, and all that.”
“You don’t understand. The ending isn’t what you think. You aren’t going to like it. It is the good guys that ultimately win. You see, the real Power of the universe is coming down to Earth again, a second time, directly.”
“Wait, you mean..?”
“Yes, the One is coming back. Him. And He will make our childish internecine cat-fights between Asgard and Niflheim look like a pair of little brats flinging sand in a toy sandbox. The real Power is descending, Dorlaz. In fact it’s just getting started. Then there follows the major natural upheavals. A meteor named Wormwood triggers a red algae bloom that kills one-third of all aquatic life. Then huge earthquakes will shake the continental plates, and a GOES level X-40 CME solar flare will blow from the sun that will fry anyone standing outside for more than an hour. That solar flare will make the Carrington Event of 1859 look like a kid’s sparkler - all the world’s unshielded electronics will be fried worse than any possible human nuclear EMP attack. Then the Yellowstone caldera blows up, bigger than the Deccan Traps, a single volcanic caldera that envelops much of the state of Wyoming, thus ending most life on the North American continent and effectively wiping out the United States and Canada as world powers.”
“Ok.. that sounds kind of major.”
“Just you wait. The resulting nuclear winter is what really does things in. The sun, moon, and stars are darkened by the worldwide cloud of ash. There is literally no daylight anymore. The air is almost unbreathable, people choking on their own tongues.”
“Ouch. What happened to that charismatic leader you mentioned?”
“He really goes to town. He scapegoats Israel for the calamity. That country survives the disaster better than any other, with their advanced technology, desert irrigation and illuminated UV-glassed greenhouses shielding the worst of the solar flares and darkness. So the charismatic leader blames Israel. He organizes and launches a huge surprise military attack, to attack Israel, to finally wipe out the Jews. The main assault will come surging from the north via Lebanon, though every surrounding country will participate. The battle climaxes at a hill called Har-megiddo, just north of Tel Aviv. When Israel’s last survivors are all standing on that hill at that final desperate moment, surrounded on all sides, when all hope is lost, He comes down to Earth for a second time and ends the last battle, personally.”
“How do you know all this?”
“Like I said, it was foretold 2000 years ago. It’s confirmed in the Blue File. Dorlaz, our war is over. It’s time to climb out of the darkness. Join the light. If we don’t reconcile, the Blue File says that we will all be destroyed. God is going to wipe out our puny little shared mansion like we never existed. We have no purpose anymore. This way we might survive, and we might even flourish. And..”
Dorlaz said, “And?”
“.. some day the gate to Earth may reopen again, and we might get to see a 1000 year reign of Christ on Earth. I long to see that myself, more than anything.”
That was fun.